It would be helpful if I didn't have to close and restart my browser to install an addon. It would be easier to only have to restart the tab I want the addon to start working on.
Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?
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Re: Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?
#112I'd love vi keybindings to navigate the console and web inspector.
Oh man… I'll try to sneak that into Firefox' source code ;)
-- A Vim user
Re: Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?
#113I was just now debugging in 3D view and wishing the view would re-render when I changed a style attribute. That would be pretty slick and quite helpful. Thanks for all your hard work.
Noted.
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#114This isn't in your purview, but it'd be really nice if Firefox text boxes on OS X acted like OS X text boxes. Whenever I try to switch to using Firefox instead of Chrome, this drives me crazy because all the ctrl, cmd, option + arrow key combos I use with every other Mac application for text manipulation don't work.
This realistically a low priority matter, but it's one that keeps on making me switch back to chrome.
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#115Need to be able to profile frames/second for HTML5 gaming. The frames part of the timeline tab in Chrome is extremely useful.
Frame-by-frame debugging. Not the first time it's asked. Thanks.
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#116Web Worker debugging that's on par with debugging code in the document. That includes logging, breakpoints, and being able to see the scripts loaded in a Worker without having to open its debug tab first.
(I'm reacting to Chrome's current situation, but it applies across the board.)
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#117Re: Ask HN: Webdevs, designers: what devtools should we (Mozilla) build in Firefox?
#118It would be helpful if I didn't have to close and restart my browser to install an addon. It would be easier to only have to restart the tab I want the addon to start working on.
(that's unrelated. We support restartless extensions. And that depends on the extension. Some do support that, some don't).
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#119I understand this is probably not be the kind of feedback your team is looking for, but I haven't used Firefox for front end development since I got a Retina Macbook because I can't stand reading text anywhere in Firefox.
Before the Retina I used Firefox/Firebug all day everyday. After Retina, I jumped to Chrome.
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#120Need to be able to profile frames/second for HTML5 gaming. The frames part of the timeline tab in Chrome is extremely useful.
I'd also love other performance hints with regards to optimizing for games or other things that require heavy animation.
- Which layers/elements are being hardware-accelerated, and which aren't? Just as importantly, why or why not? - How much VRAM is being used by which element/etc, and how much total RAM/VRAM am I using at a given moment?